These days, testing is easier said than done, with long lines stretching out at testing sites all over the state.

Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine. She's also an unabashed apple fan, and the author of a newly revised and updated "The Apple Lover's Cookbook." She takes listener calls on how to identify apples, buy them and how to eat and cook with them.

As the promise of a coronavirus vaccine becomes more of a reality, not everyone is ready or willing to take a vaccine. Recent studies find that people of color are the most hesitant right now to take the vaccine.

We join local chefs, restaurateurs and authors in the kitchen and at the table to talk about family and food.

Tipton-Martin is the first person of color to lead an America's Test Kitchen publication as editor in chief.

Plus, we speak with the new editor of Cook's Country magazine.

We welcome Jerald Walker, a Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College, to talk about his latest collection of essays, "How To Make A Slave."

We hear from Petty Officer Ryan Noel with the U.S. Coast Guard and from Ben Martens, Executive Director of the Maine Coast Fisherman Association.

We take listener calls with Meredith Goldstein, who runs The Boston Globe's "Love Letters" advice column and podcast, and Omar Ruiz, a licensed family therapist at TalkThinkThrive, a team of Newton-Wellesley therapists.

Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone joins us to talk about how his community is preparing for this surge of the virus.